I was in college when C++ was taking off, and the hype around C++ wasn't really the language, but rather the OOP paradigm, which C++ enabled on top of C, which

I was in college when C++ was taking off, and the hype around C++ wasn't really the language, but rather the OOP paradigm, which C++ enabled on top of C, which was heavily established. C++ took off far faster than Rust has. I don't have exact numbers, but C++ was used almost nowhere in the late 80s, and by 2000, it was the defacto programming language all over the place (especially with video games). Rust's first stable release was 2014, meaning it has been around for 8 years. By the time C++ was around the same age, it was as popular as, well, C++ is now, actually! Rust is just way better thought out on a deeper level than C++ ever was (or is). It has its issues, and while it may suddenly accelerate adoption in the next several years, I don't actually seeing it gaining many inroads. I hope to be wrong! I think, these days, language kinda doesn't matter as much, as all languages are picking up chunks and pieces of all the various paradigms, like a decorator crab, and that tends to work fine for established code bases.